Johann sebastian bach christoph wolff5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The chamber music ensemble - now in its 15th season - features founder, artistic director, and violinist Elizabeth Suh Lane harpsichordist Elisa Williams Bickers and guitarist Beau Bledsoe along with soprano Sarah Tannehill Anderson. Wolff’s 2007 appearance at the Library also accompanied a Bach Aria Soloists concert. 1 in B minor for Violin, Toccata in D for harpsichord, and recitatives and arias from Cantata No. The longtime Harvard professor, whose first appearance in Kansas City drew a capacity crowd to the Library seven years ago, joins the Bach Aria Soloists, providing commentary and insight into Bach’s life and works throughout the ensemble’s musical presentation.Īmong other selections, the event will feature Bach’s Partita No. RSVPs are now closed at the presenters' request.Ī Pulitzer Prize finalist for his landmark biography of Johann Sebastian Bach and the former director of Germany’s renowned Leipzig Bach-Archiv, Christoph Wolff has towered for decades as the world’s preeminent authority on the great composer. ![]()
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Dean r koontz devoted5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() “We’re well past 1,000 requests for interviews about it, and I’ve turned them all down,” Koontz says, though he echoes a quote he gave to one publication in a rare interview about the topic. “It’s not even a novel about a pandemic.”īut knowing all this hasn’t stopped some conspiracy theorists from manipulating the facts-even going so far as to link text from The Eyes of Darkness to Sylvia Browne’s 2008 book, End of Days, which also alleges to have “predicted” the virus. “When the book was reissued in 1989, the Soviet was gone, so I just changed it to Wuhan,” Koontz says, which was a nod to the biological warfare labs that have been in existence in the area for more than 50 years. In fact, in the original version of the book, the weapon was called “Gorki-400” in reference to a Russian locality-Wuhan wasn’t mentioned at all. While it’s true the novel does make reference to the Wuhan-400-a biological weapon brought to the US by a Chinese scientist-Koontz says that’s where the similarities end. Let’s get this out of the way right here-no, Dean Koontz did not predict coronavirus in his 1981 thriller The Eyes of Darkness. Did Dean Koontz Predict a Global Pandemic? ![]() Nomadland book cover5/31/2023 ![]() The cast comprised a few professional actors like David Strathairn, McDormand’s longtime neighbor, mixed in with the real people who populate Bruder’s book. The unconventional road trip movie coiled through punishing landscapes in five states - Arizona, Nebraska, Nevada, California and South Dakota. Within six months, Zhao, McDormand and Spears hit the road and embarked on the $4 million to $6 million Searchlight film’s five-month shoot. “Immediately, it was very much Fran and I realizing that we have a lot in common, that the things that attracted us to the book are very similar,” Zhao adds. While McDormand may have set the stage with that outfit, the fact that the women were like-minded about the material sealed the deal. Could we create another iconography through her?” Just looking at her, the iconography of Frances McDormand, whether it’s a police uniform or overalls - my mind was going 1,000 miles an hour of what would Fern look like. “She’s very fashionable and she made that overall feel like a whole trend. ![]() “She was wearing overalls,” Zhao recalls of her first impressions of McDormand, 63. ![]() Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The darker themes of grief running through the main mystery plot keep the reader rooting for Bess and hoping she’ll find her footing as a woman in her own right before she gets too old to enjoy her second phase of life. Houdini is the deeper look into the heart of a widow who doesn’t seem to know how to function without her husband. What is he trying to say? Why are they being brought together? Along the way Bess gets caught up in a mystery with a magazine reporter and they both begin to believe Harry is contacting them from beyond the veil of death. Bess, however, struggles with her grief and carving out her own identity as a woman after living for decades under the shadow of a man who was larger than life. If anyone could find a way to communicate with the living from the afterlife, the world is certain Harry Houdini could do it. ![]() Told from the perspective of Bess Houdini, wife of famed early twentieth century magician Harry Houdini, the novel looks at the quest for a wife to reach her husband beyond the grave. Houdini by Victoria Kelly thanks to the publisher, Simon and Schuster through NetGalley. Recently I had the opportunity to read an advanced reader copy of Mrs. ![]() |